• Neotype designation: Salata & Borowiec, 2018a: 4
• [First available use of Aphaenogaster subterranea gibbosa muschtaidica Ruzsky, 1905b; unavailable (infrasubspecific) name.]
• [Misspelled as mushtaidica by Arnol'di, 1948a: 211 (in list).]
• Salata & Borowiec, 2018a: 6 (q.m.).
• Combination in Aphaenogaster (Attomyrma): Emery, 1921c: 58
• Subspecies of Aphaenogaster gibbosa: Emery, 1921c: 58; Arnol'di, 1948a: 211 (in list).
• Junior synonym of Aphaenogaster gibbosa: Dlussky et al., 1990: 212; Arakelian, 1994: 31; Bolton, 1995b: 71; Gratiashvili & Barjadze, 2008: 137.
• Status as species: Collingwood, 1985: 246; Salata & Borowiec, 2018a: 4 (redescription); Bračko, 2019: 169.

Obsolete combinations

• Aphaenogaster gibbosa muschtaidica

Citations

• Arakelian, G. R. 1994. Fauna of the Republic of Armenia. Hymenopterous insects. Ants (Formicidae). [In Russian.]. Erevan: Gitutium, 153 pp. PDF
• Arnol'di, K. V. 1948a. Ants of Talysh and the Diabar depression. Their importance for the characterization of communities of terrestrial invertebrates and for historical analysis of the fauna. [In Russian.]. Trudy Zoologicheskogo Instituta. Akademiya Nauk SSSR 7(2):206-262. PDF
• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Bračko, G. 2019. New data on the ant fauna (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Azerbaijan. Caucasian Entomological Bulletin 15 (1):165-175. 10.23885/181433262019151-165175 PDF
• Collingwood, C. A. 1985. Hymenoptera: Fam. Formicidae of Saudi Arabia. Fauna of Saudi Arabia 7:230-302. PDF
• Dlussky, G. M.; Soyunov, O. S.; Zabelin, S. I. 1990. Ants of Turkmenistan. [In Russian.]. Ashkabad: Ylym Press, 273 pp. PDF
• Emery, C. 1908d. Beiträge zur Monographie der Formiciden des paläarktischen Faunengebietes. (Hym.) (Fortsetzung.) III. Die mit Aphaenogaster verwandte Gattungengruppe. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 1908:305-338. PDF
• Emery, C. 1921c. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [part]. Genera Insectorum 174A:1-94 + 7 plates. PDF
• Gratiashvili, N.; Barjadze, S. 2008. Checklist of the ants (Formicidae Latreille, 1809) of Georgia. Proceedings of the Institute of Zoology (Tbilisi) 23:130-146. PDF
• Salata, S.; Borowiec, L. 2018a. Redescription of Aphaenogaster muschtaidica Emery, 1908 with a key to gibbosa species group. Asian Myrmecology 10:15 pp. e010002. 10.20362/am.010002 PDF